Story+1992-06-26+Frankfurt,+Germany

´´Alright....this is for my American friends in the audience tonight.....”
 * 26.06.92 Frankfurt, Germany, intro to ´Local Hero´**

´´Danke !....that´s all my German there (chuckles)....I wrote this song in, uh, 1978....when I was, uh....I was living on a farm in, in New Jersey and uh....I was going through some hard times at the time....and kind of, guess it´s a story about, uh, having to....kind of strip everything away from yourself to be able to find yourself anew again....uh.....let´s do it.... ”
 * 26.06.92 Frankfurt, Germany, intro to ´Darkness on the Edge of Town´**

´´Here´s another song about...trying to find yourself again....do it every ten years or so (chuckles)....you can´t find what´s out there ´less you get lost a little bit, you know, it´s good for you (chuckles)....”
 * 26.06.92 Frankfurt, Germany, intro to ‘Dancing in the Dark’ (after ´Darkness on the Edge of Town´)**

´´There´s a lot of violence in the U.S.A right now....inner cities at a crisis point....there´s a lot of people not (?) the small respect, the modest respect that it takes to raise your family, to find your place in the world you live in....cities burning.....”
 * 26.06.92 Frankfurt, Germany, intro to ´57 Channels´**

´´This is uh....this is a song, it´s sort of uh....I guess it´s about compassion.....whether it´s with your lover (?) or your friends and your neighbors....das ist ein Song uber Freundschaft und (?)....”
 * 26.06.92 Frankfurt, Germany, intro to ´If I Should Fall Behind´**

´´Wait a minute now...has anybody out there ever lost their faith in love ? (cheers) have you lost your faith in love before ? (cheers)(?) if you´ve lost your faith in love, let me see your hands....gotta be more people lost their faith in love at least once than that (chuckles) let´s check it out....”
 * 26.06.92 Frankfurt, Germany, intro to ´Leap of Faith´**

´´Yeah....alright....that´s right.....that is right....feeling like a real man.....”
 * 26.06.92 Frankfurt, Germany, intro to ´Real Man´**

´´This is uh....this song I wrote when I was, uh....20, 24 years old....(?)....I guess at the time it was sort of....it was kind of a dream that I had.....when I was a very young man....and....it´s funny you always think, gee, you write better as you grow older and I think that in some ways that´s true but sometimes you go back and you´ll be surprised that kind of how much .....uh, I guess where writing comes from is it comes up out of your soul, it, uh....you´re kind of surprised how much you sort of knew about yourself at the time....and this is a song, uh ....I guess I´ve been lucky in that the things that I dreamed about when I was 24....you know, I think....when I put this, this man and this woman in this car in this song....they, they didn´t get lost, they rode around for a very long time (chuckles) but uh, but they didn´t get lost....”
 * 26.06.92 Frankfurt, Germany, intro to ´Thunder Road´**

´´(?) we came all the way from the U.S.A, we went first via Stockholm, Sweden....(?) we went to Milano....where we had every kind of Italian food you can imagine, we had pasta marinera, we had pasta primavera, we had spaghetti till it was coming out of our ears....(?) we came on down to Frankfurt, Germany....and that´s where we´re here tonight, I wanna know are you ready to testify ? (cheers) are you ready to testify ? (cheers) are you ready to testify right now ? (cheers) are you ready to testify right now ? (cheers) is there any spirit out there tonight ? (cheers) is there any spirit out there tonight ? (cheers) I wanna hear the spirit that´s out there tonight (cheers)....”
 * 26.06.92 Frankfurt, Germany, middle of ´Light of Day´**

´´(people yell ´Born to Run´) You´re not ready for that yet, you´re not ready for that yet.... this is a song that, uh....I guess a part of it was an Elvis Presley song and I changed some of the words and changed some (?)....so, uh....and some friends from Italy requested this tonight ....”
 * 26.06.92 Frankfurt, Germany, intro to ´Follow That Dream´**

´´Do I hear a request out there ?....”
 * 26.06.92 Frankfurt, Germany, intro to ´Born to Run´**